The Colorful Home Makeover

Home. What you surround yourself with directly effects how you feel, how you work, how you dream. I have a great love of decorating and an active imagination so I can see what rooms will look like with certain colors and textures and a simple rearrangement of furniture.

Before. Nice, but blocked off from the rest of the room. I had a lot of wasted entertaining space.

When I first moved in to our lovely abode in January I had the perfect vision of simplicity. Amish style, woven round rugs, pioneer looking, open…Okay, so I take it back. It is so BORING! Lord, I need some color!

I wanted to create a larger seating area instead of a chopped up space. I am teaching classes at my home at the end of the month and I want lots of room for cross talk and comfort. The new rug is filled with bright, beautiful color that magically pulls together the mix matched furniture. I love the faux fur rugs on the back of the futon and the bright pillows on the sofa.

Before

AfterA creative writing corner (that I will probably never use)

I went and saw my friend, Marco, at El Camino Imports in Old Colorado City to get a few Indian blankets and tiled tables. I missed mine and they make my home look like my home!

Just a little plain..

Old doors fill an empty wall.

Now this redo took a little more cash because we are still rebuilding after our little loss-of-everything two years ago. I needed dining room chairs. I bought nice folding chairs with black padded seats. They are quite comfortable and easy to move around as needed.

We picked this dining room table up at a garage sale for ten dollars and I painted it a lively, pumpkin orange. A few tiles from Marco give it a little vacation flair. The drink table is a folding table hiding my art supplies and the internet modem.

BeforeAfter

Now that I live close to two hours from my shop, I work from home a lot more. When I do come home from a long day I want a place where Doug and I can put our feet up, have a drink, relax, and be energized by the colors that remind us of vacation and fun. This is our home. Swing by sometime.

That particular orange is pretty bright. We are Denver Bronco fans, but that wasn’t really what I was going for! Once I put the tiles on and added the softer oranges all over, it worked. Orange is so happy, don’t you think?

Haha! It’ll make decorating during big football games so much easier then! I ended up painting my daughter’s nursery a much brighter purple…whoops! It turned into a cheery looking kids room instead of the pale purple guest/kid room I had hoped. Oh well, right?! Sometimes we get some happy surprises during our projects! I love your eclectic home style. Reminds me of our home. Sending over lots of love for a great day!

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